PiscinePeacocks:
I don't know if she's still available but sirinut(?)farms had a blue and white marble with green/teal iridescence as well...thought she was gorgeous...looked similar to the girl you have bid on. I do the same thing and try to always buy a sibling female to go with the male!
Note: another breeder with some great bettas is Alex (polukoff)...check out "my bettas for sale!" Thread on this forum...also his girlfriend Bettascapes has awesome fish :)

Ravenwinds: sorry for the late reply. I only am able to be on here in spurts. I probably missed out on the Sirinut girl by now but thank you for pointing her out. I did manage to buy a sibling female too so hopefully between the two girls I will get some pretty babies! I will have to check out Polukof and bettascapes as well!

LOL Yes you do! And, I recently bought some at Michaels and I had to get and employee to unlock the metal cage. On top of that, said employee had to take the can to the register to hold for me by their policy. I am a 40 something woman and still they won't release it to my custody until I pay for it at the register. Obviously, I wasn't carded for it, but you do have to be a legal adult. I believe it is an attempt to curb spray paint theft and tagging.

Chard: OMG! That 1st male is gorgeous! Banleabettas sure has some nice strains...hey, do you still have "avatar" the fire dragon w/arrows on his cheeks?

So is the recent purple copper (from blimp33?...he's a great breeder! And he's wonderful to work with!)

Ayla: Happy Birthday!

Pitluv: Majcha is a wonderful guy to work with...we pen-pal'd for awhile after I bought my platinum orange cream dragon HM from him. My platinum had "pearl eyed" or scales over his eyes...but he could see/sense, just don't know how much...wasn't able to see enough to breed though (started beating crap out of female cuz she was asking to spawn :)...luckily I was watching because I suspected he wouldn't be able to spawn...anyway, it is very possible that the orange/ blue platinum marble (? Something like that :) is at least partially blind...IMHO.....coming from same breeder w/same colors for most part, probably have a common ancestor even though mine was HM and yours are HMPK...

Yes, I have to limit where I go on aquabid....and for how long as well! Too addicted :)